Friday, October 30, 2009
Few Teachers Are Giving Full Effort to Help Students Learn
As I was reading "Rigor Redifined" by Tony Wagner it suddenly appeared to me that if teachers don't give their full effort in their curriculum, then students will recieve minimal education to prepare them for what is ahead. It seems that nowadays teachers have begun to give up on the students because we don't seem to be interested in the curriculum. Many people think that it is the teacher's responsibility to educate the students efficientely. However, I believe that students are taking partial action in this fall of education. The students have recently begun to slack off causing a chain reaction to occur. As soon as your friends slack off you want to also. Then the teachers will try to keep us interested, but the students are all so stubborn that the teacher (if they are not giving full effort) will give up on keeping us interested. In the article that I read the author explains how a good teacher should educate their students. Then he gives examples of some bad teachers. A good teacher (the author says) teachs the students to use critical thinking, leadership, adaptation, initiative, written communication, analyzing information, and imagination. If a teacher tries their best to engage us in these activities then I believe we, as students, will be interested in the class and recieve beneficial education.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Why will 2020 be this way?
As I was watching Mr. Fisch's video "2020 Vision" I thought why would you want the world to be this way? I am sorry but that's just not how I think the world is going to turn out, however I respect that Mr. Fisch made this stunning video. I think that if all these companies (google, yahoo, Microsoft) control almost all activities then they will become monopolies and gain too much power for their own good. Mr. Fisch explains how Google will hold a free online college and I think that that is absurd. Students that actually care about college work to get it. If it was freely given out to everyone then they would have no drive or determination to do well and receive maximum education and a "college experience". Only around 35-40% of people go to college before 25 says most articles. "Greater percentage of Americans educated" from USATODAY gives great details. If all the education became perfect and everything was perfectly efficient where would all that fun be?! At schools fun activities and athletics would go down the drain and the students social life would be not very interesting. If learning became the first objective of all things then lost arts would begin to emerge. Cooking, art, dance, fashion, sports, and many more activities and passions would become lost arts! I do agree with Mr. Fisch that everyone should give effort to change to world and take care of each other. I also agree that technology is becoming a huge part of our lives. However people have to understand that not everyone wants the world to be taken away by technology. I am a very artsy person and to think that all this technology is taking over makes me a little upset actually. Technology is helping our world alot! However, in my opinion, technology isn't everything.
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